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3.3.6 Distinguished -0.0

Some Scheme implementations, specifically those that follow the IEEE floating–point standards, distinguish between number objects for 0.0 and -0.0, i.e., positive and negative inexact zero. This report will sometimes specify the behavior of certain arithmetic operations on these number objects. These specifications are marked with “if -0.0 is distinguished” or “implementations that distinguish -0.0”.